“My Uncle Mishka is sometimes scary. He has short, dark hair, brown eyes, he's short, and he has a beard. He is quiet, well-spoken, and uses big words. My family thinks he is funny, scary, and smart. I think he is funny, scary, and smart, too. One time I went to his house and he was sharpening his swords and putting them in cases with big locks on them...”—Nicholai Yosefovich Zakharin
Mishka Zakharin...
His nine-year-old nephew
probably summed it up
best...
Born in Wisconsin in 1970, Mishka Zakharin earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1992, Zakharin has since published anthologies of poetry, prose and bizarre ramblings (...and there has long been suspicion that a novel is brewing in there somewhere).

With writing influences ranging from Shakespeare and 19th Century Russian poets to Groucho Marx and Monty Python, Zakharin keeps you guessing with his walking-contradiction-persona...
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